CONTENTS Contents News and Analysis
Big data • Open-access licensing ‘Good enough’ is not good enough
Why data management is important Making metrics more relevant
A look at alternative metrics Information aids invention
How engineers use online resources Evolving libraries
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Insight from providers of library management systems
Product focus
Boundaries blur between articles and books Diary
Interview 31 32 34 Steve Miron, a senior vice president at Wiley Evolving libraries
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ON THE COVER Information aids invention
18 Leader: Siân Harris Making the most of data
This issue of Research Information has some big themes. One of these is data, a big buzz word of the last couple of years and a no doubt a buzz word for 2013 too. The concept of data and how it relates to published research output is key to much of the debate around open-access licences. Licence considerations, specifically whether the CC-BY licence mandated by some funders and championed by text and data miners is in the best interests of authors (page 8), seem to have become the new hot debate in the industry. Away from published research, the quality of research data itself and its potential for semantic enrichment is another important topic (page 10). Meanwhile, big data also raises a host of practical and ethical issues, especially for researchers in the social sciences (page 6). And that is my space pretty much filled without having room to more than mention engineering (page 18) and library management systems (page 22). I look forward to following up on all these topics and others in 2013.
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